Today’s students are tomorrow’s global society. It’s imperative that present society do everything within its power to ensure its children are well-equipped for the future. This begins with education.

Scholarship Awards with CommunityForce to date

Our platform enables organizations to:

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Accept Applications

Accept Applications

Providers can now accept applications online or import student data from Excel spreadsheets, enrollment systems, Financial Aid systems, home-grown student databases or from student information systems like Banner and PeopleSoft. CommunityForce Integration APIs are used to afford students and administrators the ease of signing on to CommunityForce using their existing SIS credentials, eliminating the need for multiple usernames and passwords.

Nominate Students

Nominate Students

Even if you have a scholarship that requires the ability for advisors, high-school guidance counselors, department heads, academic college heads, and/or local community organizations to nominate applicants to receive scholarships or grant funds for their high education, CommunityForce can offer you the capability to perform that function effortlessly.

Flexible Scholarship Matches

Flexible Scholarship Matches

Students can either search for eligible scholarships or have the system automatically find scholarship matches for them. With our One-Click Apply, students can apply for all available scholarships in just a few seconds.

Match Applicants to Funds

Match Applicants to Funds

Whether you have one fund or 5000, you can create funds and donor eligibility criteria in the system and have the system automatically match all the applicants who qualify for these funds. It is easy to set up a scoring rubric and have the system create a pre-sorted list of applicants based on highest relevance to the fund’s criteria. The fund’s management module can be used to find the most qualified applicants.

Ensure Prompt and Timely Submission

Ensure Prompt and Timely Submission

Use the notification module to automate submission reminder notifications. Use the system to notify applicants any time you wish using our custom notification templates and keep track of those notifications. Improve your chances of avoiding last-minute submission crises.

Create Unlimited Review Workflows

Create Unlimited Review Workflows

Automate the entire review and scoring workflow process. Whether you have one step review process or a 10 step review process the system allows you to create unlimited evaluation steps and link them to evaluation/review rubrics. Add scores to the review rubrics to filter the applicants that have the highest committee review scores.

Review and Score Online

Review and Score Online

Allow your staff, committees and donors to review and score applicants online. Share funds-specific reports and spending policies with reviewers. Scholarship administrators can access all the reviews using a single grant administrator dashboard.

Flexible Awards Process

Flexible Awards Process

CommunityForce Awards Management Module allows you or the committee members to select the most qualified applicants and process them for the award. The system also allows you to award the applicants from a single fund or multiple funds. You can also allow students to accept or deny the offered award, and select your first and second favorite for the award in case your first choice decides to refuse the award.

This process will save you the time and hassle of reevaluating all the qualified applicants over again. Our system also offers you the ability to review funding overlap for an applicant that is being considered for funding from various committees. To speed up the awards process, the system offers the ability to perform batch awards online.

Manage Renewable Awards and Ensure Spending Policy Compliance

Manage Renewable Awards and Ensure Spending Policy Compliance

CommunityForce allows the scholarship administrators to track and manage scholarships that have to be renewed year after year. CommunityForce allows you to collect information from the applicant post-award process. Scholarship Administrators can create reports that can help them ensure that the applicant continues to comply with the fund requirement year after year.

Report and Analyze

Report and Analyze

With CommunityForce you can create any number of reports on the data that you have captured from the applicants, reviewers, and awards. Slice and dice that data however you wish using real-time ad hoc reporting.

Create reports to help with data accuracy and ensuring compliance with donor-advised funds requirements. Administrators can generate statistical reports from the system that can be used for annual reports.

CommunityForce helps to pave the all-too-often rocky road that needy and deserving students take to find money to pay for higher education.

CommunityForce was founded to solve a problem facing education and philanthropic organizations worldwide: the struggle to increase community impact while drowning in paper-based scholarship and grants processes.

CommunityForce offers scholarship providers a full-featured software for advertising scholarships, matching applicants, reviewing, reporting and awarding funds online. Providers can use the software to perform intelligent matches and make awards based on need, merit or donor-advised fund criteria. Whether you have no application, a nomination only process, or an online application form(s) with 2,000 questions, CommunityForce has what you need to improve your processes.

With our platform, you’ll be able to strengthen your relationships with donors; building trust with your donors and keeping them in the loop on how their funds are impacting the lives of needy and merit-based award winners. Through creating an applicant review only portal for donors, this enables donors to read success stories and thank you notes from the applicants they fund, generating real connection that can increase your affinity with the donors.